New Zealand

bluenose66 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 17

Hi Folks,

First off I am a Sat Nav Cabbage - so be gentle with me ! Embarassed

I'm off to New Zealand shortly and would like a sat nav unit that works in both Uk & NZ.

Can anyone recommend a unit for this, also will there be 2 SD cards for the 2 countries that will alow me to swap pending on which country that I'm in ?, also what is the cost for the NZ maps,

Hope you can help....................cheers (in advance)

tchart · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject:

Hello Bluenose,

Your options are kind of limited for New Zealand at the moment.

For real navigation you can get either;

Navman NZ maps - +-NZ$480
http://www.efrontier.co.nz/estore/product_info.php?cPath=2_4&products_id=36

or

Goldfinger Guider +- NZ$320
http://www.efrontier.co.nz/estore/product_info.php?cPath=2_4&products_id=34

If you just want something cheap for touring etc have a look at Handmap (www.handmap.net) as they have detailed street maps of NZ for around NZ$50 but this is a moviong map not realnavigation.

Cheers
Trevor

mikealder · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:54 am Post subject:

Have a look at the database located on this link, it lists a number of options and web based contacts - Mike
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6499

2TURBOS · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:53 am Post subject:

You have a number of options...

1.(my system). Mio 168 + TomTom & for an extra £99 the Navman software & maps of NZ.
Both sets of maps fit on a 256mb SD card & I have never had any (negative)software interactions by having both on the unit.

2. Buy a Pin570 & then just pay for the additional NZ map (only takes 20mb of space).BTW, the small size (mb)of the maps did surprise me, however all the one way systems in NZ were spot on when we were there a few months ago!

HTH.

2 Smile

bluenose66 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 17

Thanks for those tips. Why are the maps so b loody expensive !!, the NZ map works out between 120 - 150 squid !!, is there a sneeky way around this..........nudge..nudge !!

2TURBOS · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

bluenose66 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 17

Looks like a 570 for me then !!, 2Turbos - been looking for the £99 NZ maps, you got a link to them ?

Cheers...........

2TURBOS · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:34 am Post subject:

nick911 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi
This may have already been answered, sorry. I have a version of Navam ST V3.1 nocking around (i use TT), can you buy NZ maps for this version.

Cheers

Nick

Skippy · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:53 am Post subject:

Garmin also do NZ maps for their units but I don't know how good they are. I don't think the turn restriction/one way information exists outside major cities (not that you really need it). You can buy a Garmin in the UK (cheaper if you only want UK maps for it, rather than all of Europe) and then buy NZ maps but they aren't cheap.

You used to be able to get free NZ maps for Garmin which are based on the Lands and Survey (or whatever they call themselves these days) maps but they aren't routable so not much more use than a paper map really.
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